Wake Forest junior Will Zalatoris named SGA's July Amateur of the Month
Will Zalatoris
(Golfweek Photo)
BIRMINGHAM, AL (August 10, 2016) --
Will Zalatoris, the
Wake Forest Junior from Plano, TX, has been named
Amateur of the Month for July by the Southern Golf
Association.
Zalatoris took the title at the 113th
Trans-Miss Championship for the second time (his
first win came in 2014) at The Olympic Club in San
Francisco, which was quickly followed up by a win on
the 2nd playoff hole at the Seattle Golf Club during the
50th Pacific Coast Amateur
Championship, earning him the July Am award
from the SGA.
Winners of the SGA’s March-through-October
award
are determined by a blue-ribbon national panel of golf
officials, coaches and journalists. Now in its 14th
season, notable recipients have been Bill Haas, Michelle
Wie, Hunter Mahan, Ryan Moore, J. B. Holmes, Webb
Simpson, Rhys Davies, Kyle Stanley, Kevin Fortin-
Simard, Rickie Fowler, Danny Lee, Matthew Fitzpatrick,
Alice Hewson, and more recently Lee McCoy & Aaron
Wise.